Arctic Bay, Nunavut

I received the awesome chance to travel to Arctic Bay, Nunavut last week. It's a small town of around 600 and it's in a very isolated but beautiful location.

Arctic Bay is the northern-most community on Baffin Island and it is also the only community in Nunavut that is connected to another community by a road.

To reach Arctic Bay we had to fly from Iqaluit to Nanisivik, and from there we drove about 30 minutes in a snow storm to Arctic Bay.

The people there are extremely friendly and they were very eager to meet me.

Enjoy!

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• iqaluit
• Iqualuit
• Arctic
• Nunavut
• Winter
• Snow
• water
• flying
• airplane
• twin
• otter
• Bay
• Baffin
• Island
• Nanisivik

[TheDudeYouHateToMeet]

Where is nunavut? I have a big map of Canada hanging on my wall, and I can't find it anywhere!

[sularon]

You may have an outdated map. Nunavut is a new territory that was named in 2000. Canada effectively divided the Northwest Territories in half, with the eastern half becoming Nunavut.

[buffaloflapjacks101]

Hi im from Buffalo ny. Iv had a big fascination with Nunavut for a long time now. If i wanted to take a trip there what kind of a place would be the best place to stay.

[sularon]

Nunavut is a great place to visit! The Inuit culture is unlike anything else. If you want to do a tourist type thing, I suggest going to Iqaluit. There are a lot of great hotels and many different companies that will take you out on tours. What time of year are you hoping to go?

[fluffylizard97]

God bless Canada

[landothedj]

This is my dream place I want to start my life at

[jityr2]

@sularon I heard that it became a territory on April 1st, 1999.

[Krzysztof25XD]

Nunavut has the least population density of people in the Canadian Territories.

[alic4iakigutaq]

Nunavut wasn't named in 2000, it was officially named a territory in 1999. :)

[pinz2022]

cover me

[iqbalx8x]

Nice song, who sing?

[FloridaRaider]

I'd love to go there, wish travel wasn't so expensive.

[NotOnlySelfLover]

@canmoore Not THAT much lower. Sea water has 0,35% salt on average, at some places, those are 0,4%, but not much more. Water that salty freezes at some 29°F or -2°C.

[NotOnlySelfLover]

@canmoore Not THAT much lower. Sea water of average saltiness freezes at some 29°F or -2°C. And if this is a bay, it cannot be much more salty than average. 0,4% of salt are possible (average is 0,35%) , but not exactly the 27% of the Dead Sea, which would naturally be virtually unfreezable ;) If this is a salt lake in the tundra, of course, that's another thing.

[canmoore]

@NotOnlySelfLover Or because salt water freezes at lower temperatures ;)

[BananaJSSI]

Brrrrrrrrrrrr!! Cooooool vid!